Jet Blue
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Executive Summary
“The challenges and skeptics were many. Critics scoffed at our dream of creating a successful low-fare airline based in New York City. They said wed never find quality employees, that no one would want to fly domestically from JFK, and that wed never be able to offer both low fares and a product that includes new planes, leather seats and live satellite TV with DIRECTV programming. Twenty-two million customers later, were proud to be proving the critics wrong.” –David Neeleman
JetBlues Service
Based in New York Citys John F. Kennedy International Airport, JetBlue Airlines is a low-fare, transactional base airline carrier whose mission is to provide their customers with exceptional service. They launched their first flight back in February of 2000. JetBlue is a discount carrier that serves a little over 32 cities around the country. Some of those cities include: Las Vegas, Boston, Phoenix, and Tampa.
Differential Advantage
Since JetBlues planes are so new (Airbus A320), they have a short-term cost advantage because of reduced maintenance and repairs. In addition, the Internet has increased JetBlues profits because people are given the opportunity to book a flight in the comfort of their own home or office. Not only that, each of JetBlues aircraft
have individually built in TV screens in the back of the seats with over 30 channels of DirecTV.
Required Investment
David Neeleman received “$130 million in capital funding from investors such as Western Presidio Capital, George Soros, and Chase Capital.” After he received the funding, he felt it was time to “bring his airline formula to the worlds largest aviation market,